Earth Data Science
HydroShare
Description
HydroShare is an online collaborative system to support the open sharing of hydrologic data, models, and analytical tools. It is operated by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CUAHSI) as one of its data services to advance hydrologic science by enabling individual researchers to more easily share products resulting from their research—not just the scientific publication summarizing a study, but also the data, models, and workflow scripts used to create the scientific publication and reproduce the results therein.
RENCI was a key player in the development of HydroShare. The initial HydroShare 1.0 award from 2012-2017 led to the HydroShare 2.0 award spanning 2017-2021 as well as five directly derivative awards spanning 2017-2025 and is indirectly referenced on three additional funded awards. Of significance, RENCI leads a project to generalize the HydroShare codebase which actively serves as data science cyberinfrastructure, along with PIVOT and iRODS, for the NIH Data Commons and related awards. HydroShare recently surpassed 14,000 registered users.
RENCI's Role
RENCI PIs: Hong Yi, Chris Calloway. HydroShare is hosted at RENCI. RENCI has helped to lead the cyberinfrastructure development, systems operations, and is an active NSF-funded collaborative PI on the project.